Language is a means of communication to express
ideas and feelings. People communicate with each other using language in their
activity. Many activities in this live have their own special language. The research entitle “the Study on Emoticon used by Facebookers”
is to describe about emoticons
used by Facebookers and its meaning.

The data were collected from the informants and researcher
himself as Facebookers who have their own
profil in Facebook website. Notes and the researcher are
some instruments to support the data in this research, then analyzed by doing
unitization, categorization, explanation and interpretation.

It was found that the Emoticonin Facebook
were indicating the Facebookers feeling such as sadness, happiness, love, angry.
The function of Emoticon for Facebookersare to make the
message clearer, so the is no missunderstanding between the sender and the
receiver.